Leslie J. Hoppe, OFM, is a Franciscan friar of Our Lady of Guadalupe Province and holds a PhD in religion from Northwestern University. He is Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently Zechariah in the Wisdom Commentary series (Liturgical Press, 2024). He served as the general editor of The Bible Today and Catholic Biblical Quarterly. He is past president of the Chicago Society of Biblical Research and the Catholic Biblical Association of America. Barbara E. Reid, OP, is a Dominican Sister of Grand Rapids, Michigan and holds a PhD in biblical studies from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. She is president emerita and Carroll Stuhlmueller, CP, Distinguished Professor of New Testament Studies at Catholic Theological Union. She is author of more than a dozen books including the two-volume commentary on the Gospel of Luke, co-authored with Shelly Matthews, in the Wisdom Commentary series (Liturgical Press, 2021), for which she is also general editor.

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